10. So the Jews told the man who had been healed, “This is a day of worship. You’re not allowed to carry your cot today.”
11. The man replied, “The man who made me well told me to pick up my cot and walk.”
12. The Jews asked him, “Who is the man who told you to pick it up and walk?”
13. But the man who had been healed didn’t know who Jesus was. (Jesus had withdrawn from the crowd.)
14. Later, Jesus met the man in the temple courtyard and told him, “You’re well now. Stop sinning so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”
15. The man went back to the Jews and told them that Jesus was the man who had made him well.
16. The Jews began to persecute Jesus because he kept healing people on the day of worship.
17. Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working right now, and so am I.”
18. His reply made the Jews more intent on killing him. Not only did he break the laws about the day of worship, but also he made himself equal to God when he said repeatedly that God was his Father.
19. Jesus said to the Jews, “I can guarantee this truth: The Son cannot do anything on his own. He can do only what he sees the Father doing. Indeed, the Son does exactly what the Father does.
20. The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing. The Father will show him even greater things to do than these things so that you will be amazed.
21. In the same way that the Father brings back the dead and gives them life, the Son gives life to anyone he chooses.
22. “The Father doesn’t judge anyone. He has entrusted judgment entirely to the Son
23. so that everyone will honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
24. I can guarantee this truth: Those who listen to what I say and believe in the one who sent me will have eternal life. They won’t be judged because they have already passed from death to life.
25. “I can guarantee this truth: A time is coming (and is now here) when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who respond to it will live.
26. The Father is the source of life, and he has enabled the Son to be the source of life too.